Word: rashid
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...these guys, anyway? Dubai's Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Qatar's Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Abu Dhabi's Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan are sons of gulf royalty. But these are not their fathers' investments. Gulf money 20 years ago was being sunk into safe-bet, low-yield U.S. Treasury bonds--or the arms bazaar. Some recent deals--Dubai's brief holdings in DaimlerChrysler and Madame Tussauds, for example--have been opportunistic. But Dubai's bid for NASDAQ is part of a vision for positioning the city-state as a world-class business center...
...tribal sheiks from the region - mostly Sunni, but including some Shiites - signed a groundbreaking accord pledging to work together to curb extremism and to shake the sectarian violence that has rent the region since the U.S. forces invaded the country in 2003. The rare gathering at Baghdad's al Rashid Hotel, in the heart of the Green Zone, was the culmination of months of delicate negotiations and a welcome breakthrough for U.S. troops who've been fighting and dying there for the past 14 months. "You know the saying: that all politics is local. Well you really see that playing...
...than a month left in Iraq before his unit turns the region over to the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. "But five months ago people told me this wouldn't last a month. And look," he said, pointing to the unlikely gathering of sheiks at the al Rashid Thursday. "All I know is that the more this has taken root, the more bad guys we've been able to catch. It doesn't have to be perfect to be worth doing...
...threat of martial law has been made explicit by Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid. "If the opposition adopts an extremist policy [by resigning from parliament over Musharraf's bid to be reelected in uniform]," he told a press conference, "it could lead to extreme decisions [by the government] which could be unfortunate for the country...
...According to most interpretations of Islamic law, jihad is only justified against an invader that supplants a lawfully chosen leader - the Soviets in Afghanistan, for example. Even according to Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the radical Red Mosque leader who was killed during the siege, jihad did not apply to the situation in Pakistan because Musharraf, hated as much as he might have been, was at least a legitimate President. "But," he warned, "the minute Musharraf's army spills the blood of the Pakistani people just to keep him in power, he is no longer legitimated. Then jihad will be allowed...